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08 décembre 2019
At the request of the EC the MSPI signatures will be submitted in early 2020
At the request of the European Commission’s ECI Team, the statements of support for the Minority SafePack Initiative will be submitted to the Commission in the first part of 2020 instead of the previously announced 3 December 2019. The request to postpone comes as the new European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen is not yet in place and a transitional period for taking office will also be needed for the new Commission. More...
FUEN invites for a dialogue for a stable future in Kyiv
The project’s aim is to get first-hand reports on the current situation of minorities regarding education rights, the use of mother language, access to media and integration in the society and identifying ways of helping them achieving their goals. The project also aims to facilitate the political participation of minorities and organizes a dialogue at eye level with political decisionmakers and minority affairs authorities. More...
The Build Yourself! programme is off to a successful start
The training focused on advocacy and lobbying for NGOs and presentation and public speaking skills. These topics of interest for youth were chosen at the request of YEN, in order to facilitate the participants’ skills of representing their interests and to strengthen their persuasive and presentation skills. More...
Stopping the brain drain – Turning drawbacks into assets
Many regions in Europe are deeply affected by economic structural changes due to globalisation. The transformation of the current economy to one that is both ecologically and economically sustainable is one of our major challenges and can result in an economic downturn and increased unemployment. More...
The legislative proposals of the MSPI were presented in the European Parliament
The representatives of the international expert group of FUEN presented on Thursday, 28 November 2019 the main elements of the legislative proposals based on the Minority SafePack Initiative in the European Parliament. These proposals, presented at the informal meeting of the Minority Intergroup of the EP, are going to be handed in to the new European Commission alongside the 1,128,385 authenticated statements in the first part of 2020. More...
UN recommendations on minority education include the Minority SafePack
The European Commission should elaborate specific legislative proposals based on the language-related and education-related provisions of the Minority Safepack Initiative – says one of the recommendations of the European Regional Forum on Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities. More...
Slavic member organisations of the FUEN meet for their 22nd Annual Seminar in Carinthia / Koroška
The 22nd Annual Seminar of the Working Group of Slavic Minorities inside the FUEN takes place this week in Carinthia/Koroška, Austria. Modalities of creating a long-term and peaceful "coexistence" between the minority and the majority, the widening gap between urban and peripheral areas and the advantages and opportunities at the microeconomic level (municipalities and communes) arising from the characteristic features of minority communities are going to be discussed from the 14th of November 2019 until the 17th of November. More...
Digitalization and media in the centre of the Non-Kin-State Working Group
Digitalization and new technologies are our chance – this thought by the Arman community’s representative Sterica Fudulea was the conclusion of the Annual Meeting of FUEN’s Non-Kin-State Working Group in Constanta, Romania held on 18-20 October. Thirty representatives of ten different minorities (North Frisians, Ruthenians, Alsatians, Aromanians, Pomaks, Roma, Crimean Tatars, Tatars from Romania) joined the Annual Meeting focusing on media and digitalisation, hosted by the Arman (Aromun, Aromanian) community from Romania. More...
Irish Members of Parliament express support for Minority SafePack
On Thursday, 17 October 2019 the Federal Union of European Nationalities visited Ireland and held meetings with members of the Irish parliament to inform them about the European Citizens’ Initiative, Minority SafePack. FUEN President and MEP Loránt Vincze explained the advantages of the initiative for Europe’s minorities. More...
